Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Jakub, thank you very much for doing this.  It is a very tedious
> work, and I deem it invaluable.

And yet you trash the results.

>>    Git is just too complicated for a typical project. I understand
>>    it's probably great for the Linux kernel but for a smaller
>>    project like mine (Mesa) it's overkill and a frustration. (...)
>>    With git everything seems hard. (...)  I've _wasted_ hours
>>    trying to figure out git. That alone is a huge issue. I guess I
>>    could go into specific details about my problems with git but
>>    I've already spent enough time on this survey.
>
> I find it always a little strange how people want to use something
> like git, but are unwilling to ask.  Is this such a big attack on
> the manliness to admist one needs help or what?

Not everybody likes getting the kind of treatment you find fit to dish
out.

>>    Figure out why people find git hard to learn and eliminate those
>>    barriers to entry.  Make git more task-oriented rather than
>>    data-model-oriented the way it is now.
>
> Frankly, expectations like these make me want to bang somebody's
> head on the wall.

And you wonder that people are unwilling to ask for things on the
list?  When even mentioning something in a _survey_ makes core
developers want to bang their heads against a wall?

I find it a pity that my suggestion to ask about how comfortable
people are with the tone on the list did not make it into the survey.
Enough core developers make the tone sufficiently unconstructive to
make it quite understandable that people are unwilling to ask
questions here, in order to avoid getting their heads banged against a
wall, virtual or not.

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